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Summary: Holds your attention from start to finish.
Review: "Dirty White Boys" was my initial Stephen Hunter read. I then went back and started chronologically. By the time I got to "Point of Impact" I trusted Mr. Hunter. Therefore I did not get distressed with the arcane and detailed info on rifles, ballistics, shooting etc. that began "Point of Impact". I was rewarded with a wonderfully rich character in Bob Lee Swagger. "Time to Hunt" completes the Swagger trilogy. Again, rich characters whose flaws make them oh so real and compassionate. It is a thriller of the nth degree. As in the previous Swagger stories the true villan is in doubt until the final pages. Then you have to go back and reread the last half dozen or so pages, just to make certain you read it correctly. Mr. Hunter writes with conviction and makes you find time to drop what you should be doing and get back to his book
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Summary: Highly charged plot, predictable, yet fascintaing reading.
Review: "Time To Hunt" is the third in Hunter's Bob Swagger trilogy. It explains the cause behind Donny Fenn's death and Bob's near fatal wounding during the final days of the Viet Nam war. It is a twisting and well told tale of conspiracy in high places. Hunter is a master at maintaining a high level of suspense, I was complelled to read on right to the end. Hunter writes about shooting with a level of technical detail usually found in a Tom Clancy novel, yet it does not detract from the pace of his story. Hunter leaves enough clues for the reader to unravel things before he gets to them, but with enough twists to create a doubt that makes you read on. If you like high adventure and masterful conspiracies, you will enjoy this book. I do recommend however that you first read "Point Of Impact" and "Black Light" (parts one and two of the Swagger trilogy). Although in truth, each part stands well on its own as a separate tale. And remember, it is just a story!
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Summary: A Great Action Story
Review: Donny Fenn, an all-American boy and Marine with a Bronze Star, is coerced by the Navy snoops to spy on Eddie Crowe in the spring of '71. Eddie, a priviledged PFC in Donny's "body squad", hands out with charismatic Trig Carter and a bunch of Peaceniks with suspected ties to the Weather Underground. When Donny refuses to testify against him, the dirtball snoop sends him back to the Land of Bad Things where Bob Lee (Bob the Nailer) Swagger, lifer on his third tour, recruits him to be his spotter.They're a sniper team working out of "Dodge City", and in a great action sequence they hold off a North Vietnamese battalion that's about to overrun a stranded unit in the battle of AnLoc. Just as he makes the reader sympathetic to the anti-war side in the beginning, Hunter can also make you embrace the napalm attack that allows the Hueys to rescue Bob Lee and Donny from almost certain death. On his last day in Nam and on a mission he was not supposed to go on, Donny is killed by the Russian sniper Solaratov. Bob Lee married Donny's widow Julie in the 90s, overcame a battle with booze and now lives with Julie and their daughter on a ranch in Arizona. More than a quarter century later Solaratov comes after them there. Bob Lee finds Bonson, the Navy snoop who sent Donny back to Nam, now Deputy Director of the CIA. He presses him for the Russian connection and also figures that Trig Carter was murdered, but by whom and why? When Bob lee finally puts all the pieces together, there's some great action including a HALO into the Idaho mountains and a trek though snow in the dark to save his family. This is right up there with "Point of Impact" as one of Hunter's best. If you like audiobooks, Beau Bridges is a great Bob the Nailer.
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Summary: Great ending to an awesome series!
Review: First off, if you haven't read any books in the Bob Lee Swagger series then do yourself a favor and read them. You really don't know what you're missing. Start with Point of Impact (the best book in the series and one of the best books i've ever read),then read Black Light and finally end with Time to Hunt(a close second). Ever since the series started i've been waiting for the story behind Donny Fenn and his relation to Bob Lee and to the sniper that changed both their lives forever. Well with this story I recevied all that and more. Mr.Hunter has this amazing ability to combine the past with the present as well as combining multiple viewpoints within each time frame, and in this book he does this better than ever. What makes this book so good? Well, Bob Lee Swagger is a start. You love him for his faults and for his strengths but mostly because he kicks some serious .... Mr. Hunter also includes a vivid supporting cast of realistic characters that complement Bob very well. Mix in some interesting sniper jargon and ALOT of edge of your seat action and you have one ...-kicking read.
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Summary: Bob "The Nailer" At His Best Again!
Review: Hunter has another smash bestseller featuring Bob Lee " The Nailer" Swagger. Be sure you have a lot of free time when you start Time To Hunt book because once you do you'll be hooked. Time To Hunt has it all--great plot, interesting characters, lots of action and surprises, etc., etc., etc. One of the most interesting aspects of this book is how Bob Lee became "The Nailer" in Vietnam. Just when you think Bob Lee has suffered enough and deserves to enjoy the rest of his life in peace, Hunter comes up with another traumatic adventure for him. While I don't know what, if anything, Hunter has in store for Swagger, I can't wait to read it. Now, do yourself a favor--but a copy of Time To Hunt as soon as it comes out, cancel all plans and prepare yourself for a real reading pleasure.
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Summary: One Of The Best
Review: I found this book in a book sale and it looked cool so i picked it up.
The first chapter had me hooked already. The book looked real big and it was hard to tackle, but with Hunter's great ideas he kept something going on the whole time. Some parts seemed confusing but it all pulled together in the end. The plot kept twisting and turning with different things happening in each chapter. The parts where they went off into missions were the most exciting parts. All in all a great book must have a great ending. The ending was unbelievably addictive which made it an excellent book overall.
10 out of 5 stars.
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Summary: This book launched Stephen Hunter up to my favorite author
Review: I have read Point of Impact, Black Light and now Time to Hunt. This book was fabulous! I really enjoy the way Mr. Hunter entwines the characters from all these books to make a story that never stops twisting and turning! The detail of the snipers world and his heroic characters pull you in and never let you go until the book is done. I agree with others who feel this is his best book, although that may be because I read all three in a row with no let up, so actually I probably am feeling the rush of the entire trilogy. I just ordered Dirty White Boys to finish off the Bob Lee Swagger saga. I can hardly wait; I love Mr. Hunter's style!
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Summary: One of my favorite books!
Review: In the prolog of this book, there is a very startling development. Bob Lee Swagger is shot in the chest by a sniper while out horseback riding with his wife and daughter. The reader is drawn into the following story, eager to discover what led to this devastating outcome. The story centers on the war in Vietnam and the peace demonstrations in Washington DC. Then the scene shifts to Washington DC and the post-war political intrigue. Bob Lee Swagger is looking for answers while his life is being threatened. There are several twists and surprises in this story. Just when the reader thinks he has it all figured out, the story takes a whole new direction. Things aren't settled until the very last page. A lot of edge-of-your-seat suspense and well-plotted action. Never a dull moment.
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Summary: Another great Bob Lee Swagger story
Review: This one has everything: a look into the past of Donny Fenn, who was wounded in 'Nam, returned to CLUSA and assigned to Eighth and I in Washington, D.C., for funeral ceremonies and riot control duty (controlling peaceniks on the rampage); Donny and Bob Lee on sniper duty when he (Donny) is sent back for another tour, as Bob Lee's spotter, and the results are great adventure; and then we are brought up to date with the current adventure with the past in the background to give it context.
There are actually at least two stories here, that overlap and are connected. The plotting is superb and complex, as is usual for Stephen Hunter. Also as usual, the research effort shows in the final product. One of Hunter's strong points is his encyclopedic knowledge of modern firearms and ballistics, all very accurate--unusual in a novelist, most of whom don't know the receiver of a rifle from the butt plate.
Hunter is also wonderful at breathing life into his characters. One female critic complained because his protagonist, Bob Lee Swagger, always comes out on top. But, how would SHE write the story? Have the author kill his hero in the first chapter, thereby reducing a 600 page novel to a 50 page short story?
Critics!
This is a writer who knows how to tell an adventure story, keeping his audience in suspense all the way, and making a satisfactory ending. The kind I like.
I've ordered four more of his other titles.
Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (Ret)
author of Handguns and Freedom...their care and maintenance
and other books
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Summary: Greatest Thriller, Ever
Review: Time to Hunt
By: Stephen Hunter
Reviewed by: B. Ma
Period: 1 This book was a great book overall, basically starting about a lance corporal, Donny Fenn. He is sent on a mission, and is then sent off for doing the wrong things. He was forced to go to 'nam and has to stay until he has fought enough of the soldiers. He met sergent bob lee swagger, a famous man known for his rifle. He thoroughly enjoyed being in vietnam. They were being hunted by a russian sniper, T. Solaratov. Swagger is back on his estate and he tries to piece together the puzzle, how everything is connected, and he realizes, it was under his nose this whole time.. I enjoyed this book because of all the military action, the advanced technological weapons, and all of the action and violence was what i loved about this book. This book was great because of the great way the sequence of events were placed. "The blood spurted all over the ground" I disliked this book also because of the way the plot of charactors kept changing and the location changed from place to place, sometimes it seemed like the battle was raging in some sort of blank area where nothing was happening. In most cases I just liked the scene of the battle, but not where it was taking place. "He reached for his grease gun to fire" My favorite part of the book was when Bob Lee Swagger was able to mend his own bad situation by looking for a better way to fix everything, he is truly a person of excellent knowledge and is capable of doing much more than he is said to do. I believe that Bob Lee "The Nailer" Swagger is more than just a fictional charactor, it felt as if i were just in that story, fighting along-side him as a soldier infantry learning from his experience
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